Dali Hostels - Comments and Reviews

Hiking is nice. As long as you don’t get lost. We started the hike in the awesome Tiger Leaping Gorge by the Yangzi river on Thursday evening about six o’clock (yes, it was raining the previous day in Shangri-la so we ended up drinking beer all day of course, and didn‘t get up and moving too early), planning to reach a guesthou...

K - Dali was touristy but had a nice feel. Its got an old walled city, Western cafes, Tibetan cafes, many souvenirs shops and was good for a stroll around. Its got a big mountain behind it which was mostly in cloud and rain when we were there, so instead of climbing up into that, we went on an overnight adventure on bikes around the lake. On the...

Dali and the surrounding areas are very beautiful and even though the centre of the town is ridiculously touristic it still has a nice fel to it. Definately rent a bicycle and get off the beaten path!

All I did today was walk around town so I'll mention a little about the town itself. It is quite a surreal place where middle aged women in full local getup offer you drugs on every street corner. The town has a kind of festival feel to it but it wasn't really my sort of place. The only other point worth noting is I had the most disgusting pizza...

Got up fairly early to get out of Lijiang. It had really disappointed me and I just wanted to escape and Dali seemed like salvation for a couple of days. The bus ride was fairly uneventful and took about 5 hours in a minibus. We checked into the No5 Youth Hostel which looked really good. An old converted school and it was pretty cheap. No electr...